From jwatanabe@pipeline.com Sat May 27 10:28:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@pipeline.com (Ji-woo Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May27.102837.9148@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 10:28:37 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Ji-woo Watanabe -- The Pipeline Internet Network "We don't sign stars. We build them." From dsato@kth.se Sat May 27 23:08:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!dsato From: dsato@kth.se (Dmitri Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May27.230837.9682@kth.se> Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 23:08:37 GMT References: <1995May27.102837.9148@pipeline.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May27.102837.9148@pipeline.com>, jwatanabe@pipeline.com (Ji-woo Watanabe) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Dmitri Sato "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1